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Summary

This text provides a balanced, well-organized treatment of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, making thermal physics interesting and accessible to anyone who has completed a year of calculus-based introductory physics. Part I introduces essential concepts of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics from a unified view, applying concepts in a select number of illustrative examples. Parts II and III explore further applications of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Throughout, the emphasis is on real-world applications.

Table of Contents

Preface

vii

Part I: Fundamentals

Energy in Thermal Physics

1

(48)

Thermal Equilibrium

1

(5)

The Ideal Gas

6

(8)

Microscopic Model of an Ideal Gas

Equipartition of Energy

14

(3)

Heat and Work

17

(3)

Compression Work

20

(8)

Compression of an Ideal Gas

Heat Capacities

28

(9)

Latent Heat; Enthalpy

Rates of Processes

37

(12)

Heat Conduction; Conductivity of an Ideal Gas; Viscosity; Diffusion

The Second Law

49

(36)

Two-State Systems

49

(4)

The Two-State Paramagnet

The Einstein Model of a Solid

53

(3)

Interacting Systems

56

(4)

Large Systems

60

(8)

Very Large Numbers; Stirling's Approximation; Multiplicity of a Large Einstein Solid; Sharpness of the Multiplicity Function

The Ideal Gas

68

(6)

Multiplicity of a Monatomic Ideal Gas; Interacting Ideal Gases

Entropy

74

(11)

Entropy of an Ideal Gas; Entropy of Mixing; Reversible and Irreversible Processes

Zero Temperature; Small Nonzero Temperatures; The Density of States; The Sommerfeld Expansion

Blackbody Radiation

288

(19)

The Ultraviolet Catastrophe; The Planck Distribution; Photons; Summing over Modes; The Planck Spectrum; Total Energy; Entropy of a Photon Gas; The Cosmic Background Radiation; Photons Escaping through a Hole; Radiation from Other Objects; The Sun and the Earth

Debye Theory of Solids

307

(8)

Bose-Einstein Condensation

315

(12)

Real-World Examples; Why Does it Happen?

Systems of Interacting Particles

327

(30)

Weakly Interacting Gases

328

(11)

The Partition Function; The Cluster Expansion; The Second Virial Coefficient

The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet

339

(18)

Exact Solution in One Dimension; The Mean Field Approximation; Monte Carlo Simulation